Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Sep 30, 2019 Monday Business Report]
On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the week on…
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Parsons’ Dreyer on Company’s Role on Northrop Grumman’s GBDS Team
Doug Dreyer, the executive vice president for business development at Parsons, discusses the company’s role on Northrop Grumman’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent team to modernize the US Air Force’s fleet of Minuteman III nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as infrastructure including silos, alert facilities and crew facilities — which Parsons originally built — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s Air Space Cyber 2019 conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage with L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
BAE at DSEI: Take, Page & Kylstad on Archer Howitzer, BvS10 and CV90 Mortar Variant
Mikael Take, program manager for Weapons Systems Sweden at BAE Systems, Phil Page, the regional director for UK and UK at BAE Systems Hägglunds, and Swedish Army Colour Sgt. Joakim Kylstad, development officer at Sweden’s Land Warfare Centre, discuss the Archer self-propelled howitzer, the BvS10 Beowolf armored personnel carrier and the new mortar variant of the CV90 armored vehicle with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the DSEI 2019 conference and tradeshow in London. Our coverage is sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS and in partnership with Clarion Events — DSEI’s organizer — and working with the UK Department of International Trade’s Defence & Security Organisation to bring our audience the best in British defense and security.
USAF’s Miller on Improving Air Mobility Capabilities, Agile Logistics, KC-46 Program Update
Gen. Maryanne Miller, USAF, the commander of the Air Mobility Command, discusses improving capabilities, supporting increasingly mobile US Air Force units and an update of Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker program with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s Air Space Cyber 2019 conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage is sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Friday Roundtable Sep 27, 2019]
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a…
UK’s Dunne on Defence Growth Partnership, Building Skilled Workforce, Industrial Strategy, Brexit
Rt. Hon. Philip Dunne, MP, former UK minister for defence procurement and co-chair of the UK Defence Growth Partnership, discusses role of defense in Britain’s economy, building the workforce of the future to ensure competitiveness, defense industrial strategy and Brexit with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 DSEI conference and tradeshow in London. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS, in partnership with DSEI organizer Clarion Events and working with the UK Department of International Trade’s Defence & Security Organisation to bring you the best of British defense and security.
Supacat’s Ames on New Manned, Unmanned Products, UK Defense Industrial Strategy
Nick Ames, the chief executive of Supacat, discusses the company’s growing product line of high-mobility manned and unmanned land vehicles and Britain’s defense industrial strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian a the DSEI 2019 conference and tradeshow in London. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS, in partnership with DSEI organizer Clarion Events and working with the UK Department of International Trade’s Defence & Security Organisation to bring you the best of British defense and security.
Second Fleet Flexes Expeditionary Mode in North Atlantic
Just 13 months after reactivation, the U.S. 2nd Fleet now has “full operational capability” though its commander stopped short of saying his command is fully up to speed, yet. The fledgling fleet declared its initial operating capability in May, just before jetting off to the Baltic Sea to honcho a large exercise there. And they’ve wasted no time since as they were heavily involved in July with preparing and evaluating the Truman Carrier Strike Group’s final exercises — the first such deployment under their watch.
PACAF’s Brown on China, Distributed Operations, Innovative Warfighting Concepts, Air Defense
Gen. CQ Brown Jr., USAF, the commander of Pacific Air Forces, discusses China’s capabilities, the agile combat employment model to continually move air forces across the region to deter Beijing as well as safeguard assets from attack and associated logistical challenges with the approach, distributed joint-force multi-domain operations and the need to adopt innovative warfighting concepts, the need for more air and missile defenses and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
US Navy Ramps Up Sustainment Efforts to Prepare for Combat
WASHINGTON — The strenuous efforts being undertaken by the US Navy to maintain and update its fleet are clearly visible in ports near naval bases, where repair yards have as much business as they can handle. The service is moving to streamline and consolidate the contracting end of overhauls and group multiple ships under one contract award – an approach industry has asked for to gain greater workload stability. And a new senior position has been established in the Navy Department to focus on sustainment policy, planning and execution across the Navy and Marine Corps.